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Newsletter of The Number 135 April 2019 NEWSLETTER OF THE NEWZEALANDMATHEMATICALSOCIETY Contents PUBLISHER’S NOTICE............................ 2 EDITORIAL................................... 3 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN ........................... 4 EDUCATION .................................. 5 MATHEMATICAL MINIATURE....................... 6 CYBERMATH ................................. 8 MATHEMATICAL MISEPONYMY ..................... 9 PROFILE .................................... 10 LOCAL NEWS ................................. 12 PhD SUCCESS ................................. 19 REPORTS ON EVENTS ............................ 25 GENERAL NOTICES ............................. 30 NZMS NOTICES ................................ 32 PUBLISHER’S NOTICE PUBLISHER’S NOTICE This newsletter is the official organ of the New Zealand Mathematical Society Inc. This issue was edited by Fabien Montiel and Melissa Tacy. Editorial enquiries and items for submission to this journal should be submitted as plain text or LATEX files with “NZMS newsletter” in the title of the email to [email protected] templates are available upon request from the editors. The official address of the Society is: The New Zealand Mathematical Society, c/- The Royal Society of New Zealand, P.O. Box 598, Wellington, New Zealand. However, correspondence should normally be sent to the Secretary: Rua Murray School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand [email protected] NZMS Council and officers PRESIDENT Vivien Kirk VICE PRESIDENT Shaun Hendy SECRETARY Rua Murray TREASURER Stephen Marsland COUNCILLORS Florian Beyer (2014–2020), Kevin Broughan (2017–2020), Shaun Cooper (2013-2019), Emily Harvey (2013-2019), Emma Greenbank (2018-2019), Francis Leslie-Ellis (2018-2020), Melissa Tacy (2018-2021), Phil Wilson (2018-2021). Other positions of responsibility MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY John Shanks NEWSLETTER EDITORS Fabien Montiel and Melissa Tacy LEGAL ADVISOR Peter Renaud ARCHIVIST Peter Donelan WEBMASTER Boris Baeumer Correspondents Kevin Broughan University of Waikato (Mathematics) Shaun Cooper Massey University (SNCS, Albany) Peter Donelan Victoria University of Wellington (MSOR) Steven Galbraith University of Auckland (Mathematics) Jorg¨ Hennig University of Otago (Mathematics and Statistics) Gunter¨ Steinke University of Canterbury (Mathematics) Wenjun Zhang AUT (SCMS) Web Sites NZMS homepage: nzmathsoc.org.nz (Webmaster: [email protected]) The newsletter is available at: nzmathsoc.org.nz/?newsletter ISSN 0110-0025 2 NZMS Newsletter No. 135 EDITORIAL At publishing of this newsletter we are just one month from the shocking events at Christchurch on the 15th March 2019. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sympathy for the victims and their friends and family. We express our deepest support to the NZ Muslim community, as well as our colleagues at the University of Canterbury, who have undoubtedly been more affected than most of us. As a society, we stand united against any form of discrimination and we embrace our diversity to the service of mathematical knowledge, education and science. This is our first newsletter as editors and we would like to begin by offering our thanks to the previous editors, Phil Wilson and Miguel Moyers Gonzalez for their service and for their help and advice as we worked on this issue. We would also like to extend our thanks to our regular contributors and to the local news contributors who have generously donated their time to create the content in this newsletter. As editors we are open to new ideas and contributors. Is there something you would like to see more of? less of? The newsletter belongs to the society and we encourage society members to be involved in its development. In this issue we have adopted a slight change for the local news, separating out the titles and abstracts for new PhDs and giving them their own section. The year started off with a number of math-related events in New Zealand, including the annual meeting of our partner organisation ANZIAM, which was held in Nelson on 4–7 February. Despite the infamous Nelson fire which started on day 2 of the conference, the event ran smoothly and showcased the range of applied mathematics conducted in NZ to the wider Australasian community. More details and personal experiences on this meeting are reported in the Events section. Fabien Montiel and Melissa Tacy 3 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN PRESIDENT’S COLUMN A concern for many in our community is the relatively low participation rates of Maori¯ and Pacific people in mathematics, particularly at post-secondary school level, and the loss of talent and opportunity that this implies. The Council of the NZMS is committed to working to change this situation and would be interested in hearing any ideas you might have for changing this situation. Please tell us about initiatives that you have tried and found successful, or ideas you have that you wish you could try, or initiatives that you have tried but that were not particularly effective. We would also love to hear from you if you wish to be involved in any NZMS work in this area in the future. All contributions are welcome, just email me and I will pass them on the Council. As you may know, there is to be a Joint Meeting of the American, Australian and NZ Mathematical Societies in 2023. This meeting will be held in Auckland, December 4th-8th, 2023 and will replace the usual Colloquium in that year. I am grateful to Bernd Krauskopf, who has agreed to be the NZ co-chair of the Programme Committee for the meeting. While the meeting is still a long way off, you are welcome to start thinking about how you might be involved in the meeting. In particular, there will be themed special sessions at the meeting and it is not too early to suggest to your international colleagues that they consider joining you in NZ in December 2023 to participate in a special session at the Joint Meeting. More details will be distributed when they become available and, in the meantime, feel free to contact Bernd with comments or questions about the meeting. What are you doing on May 12th this year? The International Mathematical Union is organising a Celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12th; the date has been chosen since it is the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani. Details are light so far on what might be organised by the IMU, but that need not stop you organising something in your own area. If you have some good ideas for activities, I’d be happy to hear about them and to share your ideas with others across NZ. Lastly, I draw your attention to the NZMS Notices at the back of this Newsletter. There you will find calls for nominations for Fellowship of the NZMS, nominations/applications for the NZMS Research Award, applications for the NZMS Early Career Research Award and nominations for the Kalman Prize. Please consider whether any of your colleagues could be encouraged to apply or be nominated for any of these. There is also a call for applications for financial assistance, including student travel grants. Vivien Kirk [email protected] 4 NZMS Newsletter No. 135 EDUCATION Improving the Way WE Teach Maths First Year in Maths (FYiMaths, see https://fyimaths.org.au/) is a special interest area of the NZMS Educa- tion Group and a network of mathematicians teaching in universities in Australia and New Zealand. The goal of the group is to improve outcomes for students in undergraduate mathematics courses. At the NZMS 2018 Collo- quium, FYiMaths contributed several parallel sessions. In this article I will recall two of these and challenge you to think about your teaching in 2019. Julia Novak of the University of Auckland (UoA) and I presented Renegotiating the Didactic Contract: Un- derstanding and managing student expectations about your teaching and their learning. The didactic contract is a set of rules, some explicit but most of them implicit, that frame the mathematical practices of both teachers and students. We used research by Birgit Pepin and the results she found in the UK to explore the established norms between students and teachers in mathematics classrooms in NZ. The most difficult aspect for students in the transition from high school to university are the changes in teach- ing styles and styles of learning. Pepin’s research shows that the support students need most is learning to learn mathematics. Students need academics to clearly and explicitly explain what we mean by practice and mathemat- ical knowledge. What are practical solutions for university lecturers to enable deeper learning without increasing student anxiety and teacher stress? Some of the ideas we discussed: • Make the hidden curriculum visible. Explain why you do what you do. • Establish a relationship of trust with your students. • Give students open-ended problems with low stakes to empower the student. To make changes to improve student learning, we need to be willing to experiment with our teaching. The arti- cle Professional Learning That Inspires Change by Katie Martin discusses cultivating a culture of learning focused on teaching (https://tinyurl.com/y22s3vtz). It tackles some of the reasons why teaching practices are not changing. In short, educators need to come together and share what they are trying, even when unsuccessful. If you have a great idea but are afraid to try it because you do not know if it is going to work or you are afraid of what others will say, the status quo will prevail. When innovative practices are celebrated and shared, great learning can spread. If we only tell the stories of the good or gloss over the challenges, we miss the power of the learning process instead of sharing the hurdles that are part of learning. The culture of learning and risk-taking can make great ideas and practices spread. One example of a great idea was shared at the colloquium: When on-line pre-lecture quizzes are integrated into a (university maths) course: Exploring the impact of a small-scale change in an instructional model in one large-scale mathematics course by Tanya Evans and Julia Novak, both of UoA.
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